Word: joint
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...Russians did not let the matter drop. Later, during the leaders' joint press conference, one of the questioners Putin called on asked Bush about the very same firings, a coincidence the White House assumed had been orchestrated. The odd episode reinforced the Administration's view that Putin's impressions of America are often based on urban myths fed to him by ill-informed aides. (At a past summit, according to Administration aides, Putin asked Bush whether it was true that chicken producers split their production into plants that serve the U.S. and lower-quality ones that process substandard chicken...
...withhold their contributions to the Senior Gift, a traditional donation to the Harvard College Fund given by the graduating Senior Class, until Harvard agrees to divest from PetroChina. PetroChina’s parent company, an oil company almost wholly owned by the Chinese government, is participating in a joint venture with the Sudanese government, providing Sudan with cash spent on a brutal war being waged against its own people in the southern region of Darfur. While we strongly support calls for Harvard’s divestment from PetroChina, we cannot support Mahan and Terry’s boycott...
...Karnazes isn't built like those marathon beanpoles. His frame is rock solid, the result of a cross-training routine that includes windsurfing to build upper-body strength, which helps him in the long runs. But even with the right genes and conditioning, ultras can count on plenty of joint pain, cramps, exhaustion and vomiting...
...They don't get hungry. They're not afraid. They don't forget their orders. They don't care if the guy next to them has just been shot." GORDON JOHNSON, director of the robotics program for the Pentagon's Joint Forces Command, on battlefield robots currently being developed by the U.S. military...
...Hyun's government in a bind. Seoul is deeply committed to its policy of economic engagement with Pyongyang. Since October 2002, it has transferred at least $900 million in cash, products and services to the North, according to government figures and Hyundai Asan, a company involved in joint North-South industrial projects. This year's transfers?if a planned donation of 500,000 tons of fertilizer goes ahead?will likely be at least $350 million. The new Kaesong industrial park, just north of the Demilitarized Zone, is the most visible symbol of economic cooperation between the two countries. In late...